Clearing a PathIn 2006, an innovative approach was implemented to alleviate the repugnant traffic that commuters faced while heading east in the morning to Southampton and beyond. It became known as “Cops and Cones,” an apt description for a program that used...
Open Your Browser and Say, ‘Ahhh!’And Say, ‘Ahhh!’ Geography, it seems, makes the East End grand, but it also makes it isolated. In an interconnected world, that means heading more and more in the direction of virtual contact for services. That includes health care. Instead...
Roll ForwardA conversation involving a group of four community members and the Southampton Town Board last week, about building a skateboard park on land under consideration for athletic fields in Speonk, only goes to underscore the massive need for recreational facilities...
Gold Stars and Dunce CapsDunce Cap -- To Southampton Town officials for their on again/off again cone and flashing light program in Hampton Bays and other areas. The so-called traffic calming measures can’t possibly calm motorists who make good time one day, only to...
A Matter of FaithFor 50 years, Roe v. Wade was the law of the land and it assured women in the United States the right to choose whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. But that precedent was overturned in June...
A Model for SuccessOnce environmental damage is done, it is exceedingly difficult to undo — but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try, or that our efforts won’t succeed beyond expectations. Case in point, the rebound of the hard clam population in Shinnecock...
Good Ground Can Be GreatIt was 100 years ago when the hamlet of Good Ground saw a name change to Hampton Bays, hoping to join the growing caché of neighborhoods to the east, a milestone celebrated over the weekend. (A century later, it seems...
A Will To PlayThere’s more at play than a simple change in demographics when it comes to the latest struggling East End football program, this time at Hampton Bays High School, which, for the first time in 47 years, will not field a...
Staff Writer on Sep 14, 2021